On Discernment and Wisdom

The Righteous in Support of Evil
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Mankind has always chosen evil over good. Only through repentance, faith, grace and study are we able to escape that. What, you say? “Study?” “That's not part of salvation!” No, it's not. It's part of wisdom and we must have wisdom to discern.

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James (KJV) 1:5 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

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We get wisdom by asking God. It's through knowing God's Word and praying about all life's events. Wisdom is applying knowledge according to God's Word:

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Proverbs (KJV) 8:10 ”Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.”

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We must open ourselves to God's teaching. If a philosophy, idea or proposition is in opposition to God's Word, it's foolish, and the believer is unwise.

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1 Timothy (KJV) 1:7”Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.”

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Everyone needs to be tested by their words. Is what you hear in harmony with what God teaches? “Belief” has to be based on something. What you're taught may be untruth. What you accept may be lies. Satan is the deceiver. Even the elect can be deceived.

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I try to look at history for answers. All history has been a contest between right and wrong! Some ask why I'm so much against socialism. Tyranny in the name of goodness is still tyranny. All we have to do is look at history for the answers. Since fourth grade I have been an avid reader of history. I had read the biographies of all the presidents before I was out of fourth grade. Likewise, I had read biographies of hundreds of leaders, scientists and other shakers before I was out of high school. To learn more I was in the history club and was active in politics at sixteen years old and helped run a presidential campaign headquarters at eighteen.

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By now I've read the forty-eight volume “History of the Nations”, hundreds of books on American History, “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”, “Plato's Republic”, “The Federalist Papers”, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, “Mein Kampf”, “The Communist Manifesto”, “The Blue Book”, tens of books on economics, hundreds of books on Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, “The History of the Jews”, many histories about the rise of “isms” such as “Nicholas and Alexandria”, Bible Commentaries and the entire Bible cover to cover at least four times. I have read histories of the Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Calvinists and on and on. I've read hundreds of books on psychology and philosophy. In short, my goal has been to learn and to find truth throughout my life. My beliefs are based on a vast wealth of learning, not because someone like Keith Obermann has “remolded” me. God molded my beliefs ...sometimes against my strong will!

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In contrast most people who have an opinion is one formed in life based on a shallow understanding of the issues and even less understanding of God's Word. These folks have an opinion, but it's an opinion based on “nothing” and oftentimes by outright deception!

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Jeremiah (KJV) 9:6 “Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.”

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Satan is out there ready to deceive! Even Christians are subject to deception. In the Wiemar Republic millions, even the majority of the people, were deceived by the ideology of the Socialists. Germany became a dictatorship because people were deceived. They were victims of deception because they were without adequate knowledge, without strong biblical wisdom and because of their own unrighteous self-interests. We all say “It must never happen again!' However, if you're discerning you know that the end-of-time anti-Christ will have socialist policies the first 3-1/2 years and communist policies in the second 3-1/2 years, called the tribulation period.

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The world will gradually accept this New Age government for its “goodness” just as they did National Socialism's “goodness”. “It's the economy, stupid!” We're more concerned with our own comfort and wealth than we are with living for Christ and the Christian Way. Rather than a dependence on Christ, Christians turn to the government. Socialism becomes their God! Christians will accept government sanctioned sin, persecution of Christians and Jews and even murder of millions of lives just so they perceive that their desires are being met by the government! Ignorance in action! Sin, ignorance and apathy is the source of the world's destruction.

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Seek the guidance of God IN ALL THINGS. No issue is outside the knowledge and wisdom of God. Put away the lies of the world because Satan is the ruler of the world. Change all your beliefs, not just the ones you like. Strive to be more like Christ!